Book details:
📖 Full title: Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him
Author: Donald Rayfield
🏢 Publisher: Penguin Books
📅 First published: 2004
📚 Genre: History / Biography / Soviet history
Description: This book is a powerful and disturbing account of Joseph Stalins inner circle, focusing on the men who carried out his orders. It explains:
The role of the NKVD (secret police)
Stalins purges and mass executions
Key figures like Beria, Yezhov, and Yagoda
How ordinary men became executioners
Rayfield used newly opened Soviet archives, making it one of the most detailed and authoritative books on Stalins terror.
Interesting facts:
Reveals how millions were arrested, tortured, and killed
Shows the psychology of Stalin and his henchmen
Considered one of the most important modern books on Stalin
Second hand good👍 condition
K6